The Chuckanut Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 23, 1961)

“The Chuckanut Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 23, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to a small town near Seattle to investigate suspicious insurance claims on a couple heavily insured with half-million-dollar policies. When he arrives at their mountain property, he discovers that one spouse has just died in a car crash on the treacherous road leading to their home, and he must determine whether it was a genuine accident or something more sinister.

Seattle, Washington and the mountain community of Chuckanut, featuring a dangerous winding road near the Brittingham home.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lucian Peterson, Mark Brittingham, Myra Brittingham, Sergeant Bill Foreman

Listen for: The description of the deadly mountain road with its sharp hairpin turns and switchbacks, and the details of the car accident that sets the investigation in motion.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.